Kris Hoey is in her seventh season as head women’s cross country and assistant track coach at Washington and Lee.
Under Hoey’s guidance, the Generals won their
fifth-consecutive ODAC Championship in 2008, with seven runners
being named all-conference and Hoey was named ODAC Coach of the
Year. The Generals went on to place 3rd in the NCAA
South/Southeast Regional championship meet. Four runners
earned All-Region accolades and Jessica Shaw and Elizabeth Webb
both qualified for the NCAA National Championship meet. Hoey
has had two athletes qualify for the NCAA National championships in
each of the last three years.
In her 6 seasons at W&L Hoey’s teams have won 5 straight
ODAC Championships, she has led runners to 7 NCAA qualifying
performances, 15 All-Region honorees, 31 All-Conference award
winners, 5 individual ODAC Cross Country Champions. Hoey has
also been named ODAC Coach of the Year five times.
During the track season Hoey leads the Generals women’s
middle distance and distance runners. During the 2009 T&F
season her athletes won ever middle-distance and distance event at
the ODAC Championship meet winning the 800m, Mile, 5,000m and the
Distance Medley Relay), outdoors they repeated the same feet
winning the 800m, 1500m and 5,000m and 3,000m steeplechase events.
Hoey also guided Elizabeth Webb to an NCAA National qualifying
performance in the Mile where she finished 9th
Hoey came to W&L from Rockbridge County High where she was the
head boy’s cross country coach for one season. During that
time she also served as a volunteer assistant track coach at VMI,
working with the steeplechasers, middle distance and distance
runners.
At Rockbridge County, Hoey led the Wildcats to a runner-up finish
at the State Championship and guided John Crews to the individual
district, region and state championship and a 13th-place finish at
the 2003 Junior National Cross Country Championships.
Prior to arriving in the Shenandoah Valley, Hoey served as the
interim head cross country and track and field coach at West
Chester University during the 2001-02 season and was the assistant
coach at WCU from 1998-01.
During her one season as head coach at WCU, she helped mentor one
All-American, three Academic All-Americans, two national
qualifiers, four conference champions and 22 all-conference
athletes while helping her athletes set four new school records.
Her men’s and women’s cross country teams were named to
the National All-Academic team.
A 1998 graduate of West Chester with a bachelor of science in
health and physical education, Hoey was a four-year letterwinner
for both the cross country and track and field programs. She was
twice named the cross country team MVP and served as team captain
during her senior season when she earned All-Pennsylvania State
Athletic Conference honors. In track and field, Hoey was twice
named All-ECAC and garnered All-PSAC recognition as a senior.
Active in the sport, Hoey competed in the steeplechase at the 2001
USA Outdoor National T&F Championships and was the Olympic
Development Steeplechase Champion at the 2001 Penn Relays, setting
a meet record. In addition, Hoey placed 11th at the 2000 U.S.
Olympic Trials. She is a USA Track and Field Level I and Level II
Certified Coach.
Hoey is married to Head Track and Field Coach Nate Hoey. The couple
recently welcomed their first child -- a daughter, Chase Maya, in
April of 2007.
Brandon Uhl is in his second year as a full time assistant track & field coach at Washington and Lee. Uhl also served as a volunteer assistant for the Generals in the spring of 2004 and for the 2006-07 school year. During his short time at W&L, Uhl has been part of the staff that led the women’s team to its first-ever indoor conference championship. He has helped guide an athlete to All-America status in the pentathlon, a school record in the women’s indoor & outdoor long jump, and has guided numerous other student-athletes to all-conference awards.
Prior to coming back to W&L, Uhl served as the head cross country and track & field coach at College Misericordia from 2004-06, where he coached one NCAA All-American, two NCAA qualifiers, 40 all-conference student-athletes, five conference champions and guided athletes to 39 school records. He was named the 2004 and 2005 Pennsylvania Athletic Conference Cross Country Coach of the Year.
Before volunteering with the Generals in the spring of 2004, Uhl served as a graduate assistant track & field coach at Frostburg State (Md.), earning a master of science degree in human performance. While at Frostburg, Uhl was responsible for the development of the men’s and women’s jumpers and assisting with the sprinters. In two seasons, he had an ECAC champion and a jumper provisionally qualify for NCAA’s. In all, he coached student-athletes to six All-ECAC awards and 10 All-Mason Dixon Conference awards.
Uhl is a 2001 graduate of Slippery Rock University, where he earned a bachelor of science degree in exercise science. While at SRU, Uhl was a school record holder and provisional national qualifier in the triple jump. He was an eight-time all-conference student-athlete, two-time conference champion and was named athlete of the year his senior season.
Uhl is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He also holds USATF Level II certification in the Jumps.
Uhl and his wife, Alice, reside in Fincastle, Va.
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